An edition of Mad tales from the Raj
(2010)
Mad tales from the Raj
colonial psychiatry in South Asia, 1800-58
by Waltraud Ernst
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Mad tales from the Raj: colonial psychiatry in South Asia, 1800-58
2010, Anthem Press
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Table of Contents
Introduction: Colonizing the mind
Madness and the politics of colonial rule
Ideological positions
Bureaucracy, corruption, and public opinion
The sick, the poor, and the mad
Administrative reforms and legal provision
The institutions
The role of institutionalization
Towards uniformity
Inside the institutions
The medical profession
The search for fortune and professional recognition
The medicalization of madness
The subordination of "native" medicine
Medicine and empire
The patients
"Highly irregular conduct" and "neglect of duty"
"Drawn very much from the same class"
A passage from India
The changing fortunes of asylum inmates
Being insane in British India
Medical theories and practices
Popular images and medical concepts
"Moral" therapy, "mental" illness, and "physical" derangement
Diagnostics and therapeutic practice
Aetiology and prognosis
Treatment
The question of "non-restraint"
Social discrimination, racial prejudice, and medical concepts
East is East, and West is best
Conclusion: "Mad dogs and Englishmen."
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"First published in the UK by Routledge 1991"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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